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Members of the Cooperative Agriculture Maraicher for Boulbi, water and hoe their vegetable fields in Kieryaghin village, Burkina Faso.

A new business engagement inter-ministerial group, chaired by the UK Business Secretary Sajid Javid and bringing together ministers from across UK government to coordinate engagement with the business community, has been established on 30 June.

Education International strongly condemns the attack which robbed at least 42 people of their lives and left another 239 injured, some critical, as they made their way through Istanbul’s busy Ataturk airport Wednesday morning.

As worldwide forced displacement is at its highest levels ever recorded, visitors to the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) Flower Show from 5 to 10 July will be encouraged to stop and consider the plight of the world’s refugees fleeing conflict, violence and persecution, and the risks they take to find shelter.

UN peacekeepers in Liberia.

Nickolay Mladenov, UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Personal Representative of the Secretary-General to the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Authority, briefs the Security Council.

3.6 million children in Iraq – one in five in the country - are at serious risk of death, injury, sexual violence, abduction and recruitment into armed groups, according to a new UNICEF report.

Wide view of the Security Council on 29 June 2016 where members took action on mandates of peacekeeping operations in Mali, Darfur, and the Golan Heights.

A busy street in Istanbul, Turkey.

Wide view of the General Assembly Hall while ballots are being collected for the election of new non-permanent members of the Security Council for two-year terms starting on 1 January 2017.